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Empirical Inference Award 14-07-2023 Zhijing Jin receives Honorable Mention for the MPI-IS 2023 Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize.
Physics for Inference and Optimization Award 14-07-2023 Martina Contisciani receives Honorable Mention for the MPI-IS 2023 Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize
Organizational Leadership and Diversity Award 14-07-2023 Benedictus Prize Ksenia Keplinger
Physical Intelligence Award 14-07-2023 Birgül Akolpoglu wins the 2023 MPI-IS Outstanding Female Doctoral Student Prize. Nihal Olcay Dogan receives an Honorable Mention for this prize. Birgül Akolpoglu Nihal Olcay Dogan
Haptic Intelligence News 13-07-2023 Haptic Intelligence Keeping in Touch with Research at World Haptics 2023 Director Katherine J. Kuchenbecker and 24 other current members of the MPI-Haptic Intelligence (HI) Department presented an abundance of their current research projects at the 2023 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC) at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in Delft, Netherlands. Dr. Yasemin Vardar, a former HI Department postdoctoral researcher and current Assistant Professor at TU Delft, helped organize the conference as Local Arrangements Chair. WHC combines EuroHaptics, AsiaHaptics, and the IEEE Haptics Symposium (North America) every other year. The HI team presented posters for six work-in-progress (WIP) papers, posters for two IEEE Transactions on Haptics (ToH) articles, a talk for one World Haptics technical paper and three hands-on demonstrations. Dr. Kuchenbecker also served on the four-person Editorial Board that managed the review of all ToH short papers and technical papers submitted to the conference. Additionally, HI’s brand-new CaCTüS intern, Moaaz Mughrabi, supported the conference as a student volunteer by helping participants check in, get accustomed to the presentation rooms, and set up their posters and demos. Katherine J. Kuchenbecker Iris Andrussow Giulia Ballardini Farimah Fazlollahi Ifat Gertler Yijie Gong David Gueorguiev Ravali Gourishetti Moaaz Hudhud Mughrabi Autumn Hughes Haliza MatHusin Bernard Javot Behnam Khojasteh Rachael Lorsa Zhaoyang Li Ben Richardson Baptiste Rohou--Claquin Nataliya Rokhmanova Natalia Sanchez-Tamayo Andrew Schulz Gokhan Serhat Demet Tangolar Arekh Tiwari Lijuan Wang Cara Nunez Hasti Seifi Adam Spiers Yasemin Vardar Jonathan Fiene Hojin Lee Yitian Shao
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Physical Intelligence Award 06-07-2023 MAXMINDS project has been awarded the MPG Diversity Excellence Fund Erdost Yildiz
Empirical Inference News 05-07-2023 Computer scientist Zeynep Akata Schulz receives the €1 million Alfried Krupp Prize 2023 The 37-year-old researcher specializes in machine learning at the University of Tübingen Zeynep Akata
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Robotic Materials News 05-07-2023 Fun scientific activity for children The kids learnt about static electricity and the power of electrostatics Christoph Keplinger Alona Shagan Toshihiko Fukushima
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Haptic Intelligence Appointment 03-07-2023 Alexis E. Block becomes Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University Alexis Block
News 03-07-2023 Europe's first ELLIS Institute starts in Tübingen The advisory board of the recently officially founded ELLIS Institute has given the green light for the start of the institute this week. Bernhard Schölkopf
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Empirical Inference Award 03-07-2023 Zeynep Akata-Schulz received the prestigious Alfried Krupp Prize 2023
Rationality Enhancement Appointment 01-07-2023 Falk Lieder becomes Assistant Professor at UCLA Falk Lieder
Embodied Vision Appointment 01-07-2023 Jörg Stückler becomes Professor at the University of Augsburg Jörg Stückler
Haptic Intelligence Appointment 01-07-2023 Yitian Shao is appointed L4 Professor at HIT Shenzhen Yitian Shao
Physical Intelligence Award 30-06-2023 Martin Phelan was invited to the launch of the European Cancer Community Foundation Martin Phelan
Robotic Materials News 29-06-2023 Philipp Rothemund joins Die Junge Akademie The academy gives young researchers the opportunity to shape the dialogue at the intersection of science, art and society. Philipp Rothemund
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Organizational Leadership and Diversity 25-06-2023 Andria Smith first conference presentation Andria Smith
Robotic Materials Award 24-06-2023 Philipp Rothemund was elected into Die Junge Akademie at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Physical Intelligence News 20-06-2023 Pangolin the inspiration for medical robot Robot is made of metal and yet is soft and flexible Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have developed a magnetically controlled soft medical robot with a unique, flexible structure inspired by the body of a pangolin. The robot is freely movable despite built-in hard metal components. Thus, depending on the magnetic field, it can adapt its shape to be able to move and can emit heat when needed, allowing for functionalities such as selective cargo transportation and release as well as mitigation of bleeding. The research was published in Nature Communications on 20 June 2023. Ren Hao Soon Zhen Yin Metin Alp Dogan Nihal Olcay Dogan Mehmet Efe Tiryaki Alp Can Karacakol Asli Aydin Pouria Esmaeili-Dokht Metin Sitti
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Physical Intelligence Award 17-06-2023 Martin Phelan: 2nd place in the Fallings Walls Lab competition for Baden-Württemberg for the pitch “Breaking the Wall of Radiation-free Surgery” Martin Phelan
Robotic Materials Appointment 15-06-2023 Philipp Rothemund is appointed as a tenure track professor at the University of Stuttgart. Philipp Rothemund
Social Foundations of Computation News 15-06-2023 Celestine Mendler-Dünner becomes fellow of Elisabeth-Schiemann-Kolleg Celestine was recently selected as a new fellow of the Elisabeth-Schiemann-Kolleg of the Max Planck Society Celestine Mendler-Dünner
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Perceiving Systems News 14-06-2023 Meshcapade raises $6M seed round The spin-off from Perceiving Systems Meshcapade is training foundation models for the analysis and generation of 3D humans Matrix leads seed round to expand Meshcapade's market-leading AI solutions that transform pictures, videos, text, and sensor data into 3D humans in the SMPL Standard body format. Meshcapade's technology and founding team spun out from the MPI for Intelligent Systems. Michael Black Naureen Mahmood Talha Zaman
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Learning and Dynamical Systems News 13-06-2023 L4DC conference Two articles from our group will be presented at the Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference. Congratulations to Guanchun, Jan, Philip, and Hao for having their articles accepted at the Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference.
Learning and Dynamical Systems News 13-06-2023 UAI Conference Our article will be presented at the Conference for Uncertainty Quantification in Artificial Intelligence. Congratulations to Klaus and Julius!
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Learning and Dynamical Systems News 12-06-2023 COLT conference Our article on stochastic gradient algorithms on manifolds has been accepted to the Conference on Learning Theory 2023. Congratulations to Sholom and Daniil!
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Empirical Inference Award 10-06-2023 Bernhard Schölkopf  received the 2022 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for his groundbreaking research in the field of artificial intelligence.
Dynamic Locomotion Award 09-06-2023 Best Poster Presentation Award Human-like bipedal robot achieves fast walking gait with mono- and biarticular spring-tendon powered ankle push-off Bernadett Kiss Emre Cemal Gönen An Mo Alexander Badri-Spröwitz
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Dynamic Locomotion Award 09-06-2023 Best Robot Demo at AMAM 2023 Human-like bipedal robot achieves fast walking gait with mono- and biarticular spring-tendon powered ankle push-off Bernadett Kiss
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Robotic Materials Award 08-06-2023 Hyeong-Joon Joo wins 2nd prize at the EuroEAP Society Challenge 2023 (presented at  EuroEAP 2023) for his research on versatile jellyfish-like robots powered by electrohydraulic actuators
Organizational Leadership and Diversity 08-06-2023 Panel Discussion at Deutsche Bahn
Haptic Intelligence Award 06-06-2023 Doctoral student Yijie Gong wins a 500 USD travel grant to attend the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in London, England Yijie Gong
Embodied Vision Award 01-06-2023 Jörg Stückler receives an open-research award from the Max Planck Amazon Science Hub for the project "Physically plausible multi-object 6D pose estimation in object piles from RGB-D images". Jörg Stückler
Dynamic Locomotion Award 01-06-2023 IEEE Outstanding Locomotion Paper Award Abhishek Chatterjee, An Mo, Bernadett Kiss, Emre Cemal Goenen, and Alexander Badri-Spröwitz received the best paper award in the category 'outstanding locomotion paper award’, at ICRA 2023 Abhishek Chatterjee An Mo Bernadett Kiss Emre Cemal Gönen Alexander Badri-Spröwitz
Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-06-2023 Immihan Ceren Garip became Assistant Professor at HKUST in China. Immihan Ceren Yasa
Empirical Inference Award 01-06-2023 Majid Khadiv received the outstanding reviewer award from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters for the year of 2022
Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-06-2023 Oncay Yasa became Assistant Professor at HKUST in China. Oncay Yasa
Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-06-2023 Zhen Yin became Full Professor at Tongji University in China. Zhen Yin
Empirical Inference Award 23-05-2023 Bernhard Schölkopf elected Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain
Perceiving Systems Award 16-05-2023 Michael J. Black, Timo Bolkart, Jinlong Yang,  Xu Chen, and Mathis Petrovich receive Outstanding Reviewer Award, CVPR 2023.
Empirical Inference News 03-05-2023 Bernhard Schölkopf receives the 2022 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for his groundbreaking research in the field of artificial intelligence One of the world's most important prizes in the research field of AI goes for the first time to a scientist from the Max Planck Society, to Europe for the fourth time. Bernhard Schölkopf
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Physical Intelligence Appointment 01-05-2023 Jongkuk Ko became Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Kookmin University in S. Korea. Jongkuk Ko
Haptic Intelligence Award 28-04-2023 Rachael Bevill Burns is named an RSS Pioneer Rachael Burns
Empirical Inference News 27-04-2023 Casting a safety net: a reliable machine learning approach for analyzing coalescing black holes Self-checking algorithm interprets gravitational-wave data An interdisciplinary team from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics has developed an algorithm that immediately checks its own calculations of merging black holes’ properties and corrects its result if necessary – inexpensively and rapidly. The machine learning method provides very accurate information about the observed gravitational waves and will be ready for use when the global network of gravitational-wave detectors starts its next observing run in May. Maximilian Dax Jonas Wildberger Jakob Macke Bernhard Schölkopf
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Robotic Materials Physical Intelligence News 25-04-2023 Jellyfish-like robots could one day clean up the world’s oceans Roboticists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart have developed a jellyfish-inspired underwater robot with which they hope one day to collect waste from the bottom of the ocean. The almost noise-free prototype can trap objects underneath its body without physical contact, thereby enabling safe interactions in delicate environments such as coral reefs. Jellyfish-Bot could become an important tool for environmental remediation. Tianlu Wang Hyeong-Joon Joo Shanyuan Song Wenqi Hu Christoph Keplinger Metin Sitti
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Autonomous Learning News 20-04-2023 Albane Ruaud selected to join the 72nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting The postdoctoral researcher from the Autonomous Learning Group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen is one of 635 young scientists from across the world who are given the opportunity to participate in a week of scientific exchange with some of the world’s greatest minds. Albane Ruaud
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Empirical Inference Award 14-04-2023 Julius von Kügelgen: Best Paper Award, CLeaR Conference 2023
Haptic Intelligence Award 12-04-2023 Doctoral student Nataliya Rokhmanova wins a 750 EUR travel grant to attend the 2023 CHI Doctoral Consortium in Hamburg, Germany Nataliya Rokhmanova
Perceiving Systems Award 05-04-2023 Shashank Tripathi receives the Meta PhD Research Fellowship Award 2023. 
Robotic Materials Award 03-04-2023 Daniela Macari awarded 2nd place of the best poster award in RoboSoft 2023 Daniela Macari